To Love and to Cherish (2025)

A new work commissioned for the Glasshouse at Jupiter Artland. To Love and to Cherish plays with and subverts the idea of traditional marriage vows and has been created using the bodies and actions of four dancers who painted directly onto the floor through passionate embrace and unwieldy connections during Jupiter Rising Festival x Edinburgh Arts Festival this summer. Through their fervent gestures the floor was saturated in colour, forming the base for a permanent floor painting. Aphrodite’s untamed love is invoked to form a continuous kiss between the performers, leaving its painted trace. Peake has then continued work on the piece – one of her most ambitious to date – which will be unveiled this October for the first time.

The Glasshouse will be available to hire as a wedding venue.

Performance credits:

Artist: Florence Peake

Choreographer, sound and performer: Florence Peake

Performers: Katye Coe, Rachel Lopez de la Nieta, Joe Moran, Charlie Morrissey

Producer: Eve Veglio-Hüner

Production Manager: Jim Tuck

Supported by Executive Producer Caroline Smith 

Jupiter Exhibition Team: Nicky Wilson, Eloise Bennett, Hamish Halley, Ilaria Leckie & Janaki Mistry

Many thanks to Jonathan Baldock, Eve Stainton, Nicky and Robert Wilson & everyone at Jupiter Artland.

Images by: Jim Tuck, Eve Veglio-Huner, Charlotte Cullen, Neil Hanna.